Myanmar Stoves Campaign

Audit Analysis

This is a certified Gold Standard cookstove project with some solid safeguards and a quantified leakage deduction, but the evidence base has important reliability issues. The biggest concern is that the verified usage rate is only 52.63%, while the record also shows a much higher earlier figure, and additionality was not confirmed by the VVB in the verification report. Overall, the project looks plausible but not especially strong on crediting robustness.

Project Description

The Myanmar Stoves Campaign, a Sonu and Eva Foundation program, is the first Gold Standard certified carbon project in Myanmar.  The 60,000  fuel efficient stoves sold to date have improved the lives of over 285,000  people. Myanmar is the third largest contributor to deforestation worldwide. As the forests disappear, the price of wood gets higher, driving more and more families into energy poverty. Cutting expenditures on wood makes a huge difference to families already living in poverty, and reducing the time needed to forage for wood means more time to spend on smallholdings and on securing a good harvest. Rural families in Myanmar spend as much as 40% of their income – or the time equivalent – on purchasing or collecting firewood. Indoor cooking on inefficient stoves is a silent killer. Air pollution from domestic cooking is responsible for the premature deaths of over 4 million people a year—more than HIV Aids and malaria combined. Each cook stove reduces wood consumption by at least 50%, reducing both pressure on forests and household expenditure on fuel. Air pollution is reduced by 80%, improving the health and safety of the whole community. Carbon emissions are reduced by 60%, or four tons per year, per stove. The Myanmar Stoves Campaign is a project of the Sonu and Eva Foundation. The Sonu and Eva Foundation acts as the project developer, coordinator and manager. Mercy Corps Myanmar is the local implementation partner. The Sonu and Eva Foundation supports the development of environmental projects that reduce carbon emissions at the same time as addressing deeper social and environmental challenges. Using innovative impact investing principles, projects produce their own financial returns which are used to further scale reach and impact. Project impacts and benefits: Over 60,000 stoves sold to households in rural Myanmar. Over 285,000 people benefits from lower energy costs and reduced indoor smoke. Over 1,000 vendors traine

Red Flags

• ⚠ The verified usage rate is only 52.63%, and the record contains a contradictory earlier usage figure of 99.1%, which raises over-crediting concerns.
• ⚠ Additionality was based on an investment test, but the verification report did not confirm it, and reversal risk is not addressed.

Credit Vintages

Cosa migliorerebbe questo punteggio

• Provide a clear, VVB-confirmed additionality assessment and reconcile the conflicting additionality references across documents.
• Publish a complete monitoring and registry package showing the latest verified usage rate, reversal treatment, buffer pool coverage, and CORSIA/CCP status.

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